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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it extremely creepy that some people posting here think they have any say into how other people raise their children.

If you think you have authority over other people’s kids, tell me how you exert or exercise that authority in real life. Also, what would you do differently if someone told you they had a say in how you raised your children?[/quote]

DP, but you can still judge even if you know you don’t have authority. I judge all sorts of crappy parenting which is usually anything at the extremes (e.g. severe sugar restriction vs allowing your kids to eat whatever they want, being a totally no screens house vs. no screen rules whatsoever).

Going to church on Sunday, teaching your kids about Jesus, etc.? Fine. I’m not religious at all but we’ve taken our kids to services on holidays like Christmas Eve and has them baptized b/c I know it in important to DH’s family. But when my kids question things about religion that don’t make sense, I’m not gaslighting them to force them to believe.

I do judge parents who don’t allow their children to question beliefs and think for themselves or who do things like denying lifesaving medical treatment (it’s one thing to decide that for yourself, but letting you child be harmed or die unnecessarily is abuse). [/quote]

Do you judge people who call religion “crazy” and say religion is harmful to the world?

People who believe those things are definitely not allowing their children to question atheism and not allowing their children to think for themselves.

I see religious people denying their children medical care sometimes in news stories, but I also see similar news stories about vegan parents. They don’t provide their children adequate nutrition because they are so dedicated to veganism. I also see news stories more prominently of parents who are addicted to drugs, who starve and neglect their children while doing drugs.

Using the death of children to make a point? You want to start listing dead kids whose parents were drug addicts and neglected them to death? Because those kids would outnumber the children of religious people who denied their kids medical treatment, by a very large margin.[/quote]

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